Bravo Media puts a ring on it... in the new year with a 90-minute premiere of the docu-series "Newlyweds: The First Year" on Sunday, January 3 at 9pm ET/PT. Documenting the trials, tribulations and triumphs of newlyweds during the entire first year of marriage, season three follows four new couples - Rochelle and Rob Brann, Erica and Adonis Gladney, Brandon Liberati and Craig Ramsay and Tara and Rob Radcliffe. From difficult in-laws to fertility struggles and adultery, these couples put love to the test in each compelling, hour-long episode. Although the journeys of the couples' paths never cross, their stories offer a common thread that exposes the true joys and challenges of married life.

David Hinckley

Brian Lowry

Instead of mining the opportunity to expand its view of a meaty topic, Newlyweds falls back on the sort of bad habits that can ruin a relationship (made-for-TV or otherwise), and far from being fabulous in its design, has instead recycled Bravo’s same old pattern.